I figured I would start a thread for this and see what happens....there seemed to be quite a few viewers on the board for this show the past few weeks.....I like the direction the show is taking so far......episode 3 tonight at 7 central on ABC....

I agree, it seemed to be a perfect opportunity for the writers to answer some questions using the "flashback from a different perspective" method. They showed us flashbacks from different perspectives, but didn't answer much.

Of course, by now I should have known...

I knew it would be a useless episode during the first flashback.... it was a classic Lost episode. I skipped through a lot of it, but from what I watched, it was 45 minutes of crap just to get to the point where we find out what the guy was doing in the bathroom a few episodes back, followed by a good ending.

I liked the idea, but they could have flipped back and forth between what they did tonight while giving us more on the much more important storyline... you know, how the guy is going to explain to his dad, who just showed up, why he blew up a submarine after spending 100 days on an island.

When his sister chided him at the airport for hitting on every dude in the place. [when he asked Paulo if he was using a chair].

It seemed to me like it was more of the usual of Shannon being a bitch. She made about 30 gay jokes when she was jealous of Boone spending all his time with Locke. If her making a gay joke in last Wednesday's episode was a reveal, then why were the many other gay jokes she made about Boone and Locke not a reveal? Sounded like a throwaway insult to me.

I'm a big fan of the show and I like the fact that there are currently 59 different things going. However, the problem I have with all these friggin backstories, interconnections and such is that you quickly forget about some of the things from the past, especially seasons 1 and 2.

Things they've seen on the island, clues... little things. It's part of the magic, but it is maddening.